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Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and ...

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The DESI collaboration's latest research supports the standard model of gravity and hints at evolving dark energy, based on a ...

Gamma rays emerging from neutron stars at the hearts of supernova explosions could solve the mystery of dark matter — in just ...

After almost a century of speculation, proposals and searches for dark matter, physicists now know that it currently ...

Researchers have found that there's something highly unusual about the Milky Way, setting it apart from other galaxies. As ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

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Astronomers often use the Milky Way as a standard for studying how galaxies form and evolve. Since we’re inside it, ...